Psalm 34:10
New International Version
The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

New Living Translation
Even strong young lions sometimes go hungry, but those who trust in the LORD will lack no good thing.

English Standard Version
The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

Berean Standard Bible
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

King James Bible
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

New King James Version
The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

New American Standard Bible
The young lions do without and suffer hunger; But they who seek the LORD will not lack any good thing.

NASB 1995
The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; But they who seek the LORD shall not be in want of any good thing.

NASB 1977
The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; But they who seek the LORD shall not be in want of any good thing.

Legacy Standard Bible
The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; But they who inquire of Yahweh shall not be in want of any good thing.

Amplified Bible
The young lions lack [food] and grow hungry, But they who seek the LORD will not lack any good thing.

Christian Standard Bible
Young lions lack food and go hungry, but those who seek the LORD will not lack any good thing.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Young lions lack food and go hungry, but those who seek the LORD will not lack any good thing.

American Standard Version
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And those who seek LORD JEHOVAH will not lack any good thing.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The rich have become poor and hungry: but they that seek the Lord diligently shall not want any good thing. Pause.

Contemporary English Version
Young lions may go hungry or even starve, but if you trust the LORD, you will never miss out on anything good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

English Revised Version
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Young lions go hungry and may starve, but those who seek the LORD's help have all the good things they need.

Good News Translation
Even lions go hungry for lack of food, but those who obey the LORD lack nothing good.

International Standard Version
Young lions lack and go hungry, but those who seek the LORD will never lack any good thing.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek the LORD want not any good thing.

Literal Standard Version
Young lions have lacked and been hungry, | And those seeking YHWH do not lack any good,

Majority Standard Bible
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

New American Bible
The rich grow poor and go hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

NET Bible
Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

New Revised Standard Version
The young lions suffer want and hunger, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

New Heart English Bible
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

Webster's Bible Translation
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

World English Bible
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

Young's Literal Translation
Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,

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Audio Bible



Context
Taste and See that the LORD is Good
9Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing. 10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing. 11Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.…

Cross References
Job 4:11
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Job 22:21
Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.

Psalm 23:1
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Psalm 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.

Psalm 107:9
For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

Proverbs 10:3
The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.

Proverbs 13:25
A righteous man eats to his heart's content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.


Treasury of Scripture

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

lions

Psalm 104:21
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.

Job 4:10,11
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken…

Luke 1:51-53
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts…

but

Psalm 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Matthew 6:32
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

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Psalm 34
1. David praises God, and exhorts others thereto by his experience
8. They are blessed who trust in God
11. He exhorts to the fear of God
15. The privileges of the righteous














(10) Young lions.--See Note, Psalm 17:12. The young lion is the emblem of power and self-resource. Yet these sometimes lack, but the earnest seekers after Divine truth and righteousness never. Instead of "lions," the LXX. and Vulgate have "the rich."

Verse 10. - The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. Some suppose the "young lions" here to represent the proud and violent, as in Job 4:10. But it is simpler to take the present passage literally. In God's animal creation even the strongest suffer want for a time, and have no remedy; his human creatures need never be in want, since they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. It is open to them to "seek the Lord" at any time.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Young lions
כְּ֭פִירִים (kə·p̄î·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3715: A village, a young lion

go lacking
רָשׁ֣וּ (rā·šū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7326: To be in want or poor

and hungry,
וְרָעֵ֑בוּ (wə·rā·‘ê·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7456: To be hungry

but those who seek
וְדֹרְשֵׁ֥י (wə·ḏō·rə·šê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1875: To tread, frequent, to follow, to seek, ask, to worship

the LORD
יְ֝הוָ֗ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

lack
יַחְסְר֥וּ (yaḥ·sə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2637: To lack, need, be lacking, decrease

no
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

good thing.
טֽוֹב׃ (ṭō·wḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good


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